Well said.

Dang Aloysius, I would say you pretty much got the spectrum covered for hunting anything from gophers to elephants with your ensemble of firearms.

Yeh, how ya respond after something like that post. Nuff said there!

Still- I was thinking' the 7x57 crowd would be all over this, it's a great OLD caliber! I'd sure like to have one...it's the euro 308 Winch. do-all, and then some!

.30-06 is King and .30-30 is the Squire...The .22 is the "good serf".

Bushmaster wrote:

.30-06 is King and .30-30 is the Squire...The .22 is the "good serf".

I agree with yah Bushy, when handloaded the /06 is just about a do anything cartridge, I still have about 100 of the barnes 250gr sp that should take care of most things with imposing bulk and bad temper. 30/30, well enough can't be said about that round, more people have put meat on the table in the last 100 years with the 30/30 than any other cartridge.

One more thing I would like to add, it seems in the last 25 years or so that game animals have apparently gotten tougher and hence require magnum size cartridges according to a lot of gun writers. It seems that they all forgot the most important thing, IT'S SHOT PLACEMENT THAT COUNTS", you hit a game animal in the boiler room and it's pretty much down for the count.

Ok enough rambling.....

Ominivision1 wrote:

One more thing I would like to add, it seems in the last 25 years or so that game animals have apparently gotten tougher and hence require magnum size cartridges according to a lot of gun writers.

Agreed !!!


Considering that nearly everything that breaths has been killed with a .22 I'd have to say it's the ultimate.

I wanna 1903 A3...oops, wrong thread.

Still a .30 cal though!

Can't beat the -06...good night how long was that round the go-to caliber for the US????

.22 cal....

I'll stick in a vote for the 7mm (.280 Rem), just because I can! That was the first "big game" cartridge I got. Well, after the .45--70...

My old man made that "slow" 280 work fer him too!!!

gelandangan wrote:

.......I cleaned and recleaned the mold, boiled them, brake cleaner, acetone etc...

I wouldn't use brake cleaner near anything you're heating if I were you matey. It can break down & produce phosgene gas & that's a potential killer.

Ok, so I bagged my first deer with a borrowed 30/30 lever action; the next couple with a .35 Rem, and after that a couple with a S&W model 39 9mm - the only firearm I had at the time (both were shot at under 30 feet). After that, hunted for years with a Ruger .44 revolver.

I still love my .300 WBY mag, and it would be the "last gun standing" if I had to sell off everything else. The deer haven't gotten any tougher. I just love shooting that cannon.

But you guys are right - the 30-06 is probably the most versatile cartridge out there.

9mm's legal for hunting ???

chambered221 wrote:

9mm's legal for hunting ???

Way back then, in VT.

over here its .222rem or more for DOC land.

This is why I have more than one gun. Just like I have more than one screw driver and hammer. Aloys had it right, guess the .30-cal isn't so "ultimate" after all, just the freedom to use what ever caliber you want.